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Initial DVD release
  
August 6, 2002

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Director
  
Clare Peploe

Music director
  
Richard Hartley

Country
  
United States

Release date
  
May 30, 1997

Cast
  
Russell Crowe
(Alex Ross),
Bridget Fonda
(Myra Shumway),
Jim Broadbent
(Doc Ansell),
D W Moffett
(Cliff Wyatt),
Kenneth Mars
(Magician)

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Bridget Fonda appears in Rough Magic and Little Buddha

Similar Movies

Bridget Fonda appears in Rough Magic and Little Buddha. Try This One for Size (1989). Russell Crowe appears in Rough Magic and Robin Hood. Russell Crowe appears in Rough Magic and For the Moment. Russell Crowe appears in Rough Magic and Heavens Burning.

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Rough magic trailer


Rough Magic is a 1995 comedy film directed by Clare Peploe, starring Bridget Fonda and Russell Crowe. It was based on a novel by James Hadley Chase called Miss Shumway Waves a Wand, with the screenplay written by Robert Mundi, William Brookfield, and Clare Peploe.

Rough magic 1995 trailer


Plot

The film is set in the 1950s and focuses on a pretty apprentice magician (Bridget Fonda) goes to Mexico to escape her fiancé, a wealthy politician, and to find a Mayan shaman who will teach her ancient principles of magic. She is being trailed by a detective (Russell Crowe) hired by her fiancé, a former photojournalist traumatized by what he saw in Hiroshima. He joins her in the search for the Mayan shaman, and falls in love with her.

Cast

  • Bridget Fonda as Myra Shumway
  • Russell Crowe as Alex Ross
  • Jim Broadbent as Doc Ansell
  • Kenneth Mars as Magician
  • D. W. Moffett as Cliff Wyatt
  • Paul Rodriguez as Diego
  • Production

    Filming locations in Michoacán, Mexico, Tikal, Guatemala and Los Angeles, United States.

    Release

    The film was released in France on August 30, 1995 and in the United States on May 30, 1997.

    References

    Rough Magic Wikipedia